Feng Baichuan turned his gaze to the back of Lan Xueruo and said, "My dear little brother, you look very bad and you are being carried by this girl. You must be seriously injured, right? I know a little bit about medicine, so maybe I can help you a little."
"My name is Yun Che. Thank you for your kindness, Chief Feng." Yun Che on Lan Xueruo's back replied politely. His voice made Lan Xueruo's beautiful eyes widen: "You...you woke up?"
"Well, I woke up when Senior Sister carried me on her back." Yun Che said with a smile. Although his face looked ugly, his voice was no longer so weak. When he fell into the air, he used the Sky Poison Pearl to quickly fuse more than 30 kinds of medicinal materials such as Tianfu Grass, Ganlu Flower, and Shanhe Blue, and quickly melted out a Huitian Pill, which he swallowed into his mouth. The medicinal materials needed to refine the Huitian Pill are extremely demanding in quantity and quality, and the refining environment, cauldron, and refining methods are even more strict. Even for high-level alchemists, the success rate of refining is no more than 30%, but with the huge treasure house of the Xiao Sect and the Sky Poison Pearl, these are not a problem.
“Then you…then you didn’t say anything and let me carry you this far.” Lan Xueruo’s face turned pink and she was choked with anger.
"Because it's the first time in my life that a girl has carried me on her back, and it feels so good. And... Senior Sister smells so good." Having said this, he originally wanted to sniff Lan Xueruo's fragrant scent again, but suddenly his expression froze, and he stood there in a daze...
Is this really... the first time a girl carried you on her back?
In this life, it is true...
But, in that life in Cangyun Continent... that girl... every time he returned to her, he would knock on the bamboo door with his last bit of strength before fainting in front of it. When he woke up, he would lie on that soft and warm bed... Although he was in a coma, he seemed to be able to clearly feel every difficult step she took with her frail body carrying him covered in blood, and the tears that accompanied every step...
Over and over again, maybe dozens of times, maybe hundreds of times, so many times that he couldn't even count them, and he didn't bother to count them... The only thing he could remember was that even if he could live two lives, he would never be able to make up for what he owed her. Because God no longer gave him a chance.
Suddenly, Lan Xueruo, who he was leaning against, slowly turned into the figure that only appeared in his dreams...
"You! If you weren't injured, I would have thrown you down!" Lan Xueruo snorted angrily. Before, when she carried Yun Che on her back, she was calm because she thought Yun Che was unconscious. Now that he was awake, the feeling of his body against hers and the faint masculine scent made her blush and her heartbeat became a little disordered.
“Clan Leader Feng, can you help us find a place to settle my friend?” Lan Xueruo said to Feng Baichuan.
"Of course, please follow me."
This small village is indeed a small village, with only dozens of simple houses. From Feng Baichuan's mouth, I know that the entire family has only about 200 people. Regarding the arrival of Lan Xueruo and Yun Che, two outsiders, the people here were first wary, and then they all showed kindness. Soon, Lan Xueruo and Yun Che discovered something strange at the same time. The Xuanli cultivation of all the people they met was at the tenth level of the Elementary Profound Realm, except for those children who had not cultivated Xuanli. All of them were like this, without exception. It seemed that the tenth level of the Elementary Profound Realm was the limit they could reach. However, after entering the Profound Realm, each leap between the major realms was accompanied by a bottleneck that was increasingly difficult to break through. But from the tenth level of the Elementary Profound Realm to the Entering Profound Realm, there is no bottleneck at all. As long as the Xuanli is accumulated enough, it will naturally enter the Entering Profound Realm.
But the people here all stopped at the tenth level of the Elementary Profound Realm, which really puzzled Yun Che and Lan Xueruo.
"Why is there the breath of a phoenix here?"
Jasmine’s sudden voice surprised Yun Che: “Phoenix? The legendary ancient mythical beast phoenix?”
“That’s right!” Jasmine’s voice was slightly tired. She had transferred part of her profound energy to Yun Che before. Although it was only for a few seconds, it had caused certain damage to her soul and Yun Che’s body. “Although it was very weak, it was undoubtedly the breath of the phoenix. It’s really strange… Could it be that the phoenix had descended on this low-level plane in the past?”
A lower plane… These words made Yun Che’s heart move, and he suddenly had a terrible guess about Jasmine’s identity.
"And the flame mark on their foreheads is the symbol of the Phoenix bloodline! However, the color of this mark is completely different from what this princess knows. In addition, the Phoenix bloodline mark can be hidden at ordinary times, and it will only be forced to appear when using the Phoenix flame power. But everyone here has the Phoenix mark on their foreheads, as if it can't be hidden at all. In short, it's very strange!"
Feng Baichuan brought Lan Xueruo and Yun Che to a clean hut: "You two, please have a good rest here. We are just a small clan that lives in seclusion. Everything we do cannot compare to the outside world. We can only neglect you two."
Lan Xueruo carefully placed Yun Che on the bed, secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and turned around and said, “Feng Clan Leader, you are too polite. We are already very grateful for having such a place.”
"Are you the guardian family of the Phoenix Ruins?"
Yun Che suddenly asked at this time.
Feng Baichuan's calm and elegant face suddenly froze, and his pupils shrank a bit. His eyes changed rapidly, thinking about how to deny and avoid, but after a few breaths, his eyes returned to calm, and he laughed at himself: "Guardian family? We don't deserve such a title. We are just a humble family that bears sins and curses, stays away from the world, and atones for generations. Although I don't know how you know that we are related to the Phoenix, but it seems... you came to this place, really want to get the so-called "treasure" we are guarding?"
“Phoenix? The sacred beast of the Divine Phoenix Empire?” Lan Xueruo looked at Yun Che and Feng Baichuan with a look of surprise, her mind was a little confused for a moment.
“No, you misunderstood.” Yun Che took a deep breath and tried to sit up, but his whole body was weak and the slightest movement caused severe pain in his wounds. He had no choice but to give up and lie there and said, “I thought that you might be the guardian family of the Phoenix Ruins because of the mark on your forehead. I have come across many rumors about the Phoenix bloodline, and the shape of the mark on your forehead is exactly the same as the Phoenix bloodline mark I know, except that the color is slightly different. My senior sister and I came here by accident and fell from a high altitude, and were seriously injured. There is absolutely no other intention.”
Yun Che's injuries made Feng Baichuan completely believe his words. After all, no one would be stupid enough to covet their "treasures" with serious injuries. Yun Che's words made him stunned for a while, and then he laughed at himself again: "The Phoenix Mark... the color is different... yes, the color is different. The noble mark that was originally a symbol of strength and bloodline has now become a sad curse mark. Our ancestors made a big mistake, so why should we, the younger generation, be blamed!?"
There was a strong sense of sadness in Feng Baichuan's words, as if Yun Che's words had completely touched the pain in his heart.
Cursed Seal? Yun Che's heart was beating. How could a bloodline mark become a cursed seal? Wait, could it be that their profound strength could only stop at the tenth level of the Elementary Profound Realm because of this "cursed seal" that Feng Baichuan mentioned?
"I believe you are not evil people, because I can't find any evil feeling in you. You also saved my two children, so I should repay you in any way. But..." Feng Baichuan sighed, "Our family is currently suffering from a disaster. If you continue to stay here, the disaster may also affect you. So, you should heal your wounds here. It's best to heal your wounds before those evil people come here again, and then leave here. Because the next time those evil people come again, maybe... it will be a disaster."
On the way here, he learned what happened from the conversation between Lan Xueruo and the two children. He said puzzledly: "Feng clan leader, there is one thing I don't understand. Your clan should have existed here for many years, right? You have been safe and sound for so many years, why are you targeted by a mercenary group this time?"
Feng Baichuan glanced out the window and said calmly, "You are right. Our clan has existed for many, many years and was once prosperous. However, due to a sin of divine punishment, we declined rapidly and had to choose to live in seclusion. Today, we are in such a humble state, not even as good as a run-down village of humans. But in these years, no one has come to harass us. Because this place is called the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, all kinds of mysterious beasts are rampant, from the violent sub-mysterious beasts to the terrifying earthly mysterious beasts. It is even said that there are three terrifying sky-mysterious beasts living in the mountains. This is a paradise for mysterious beasts. They reject humans from entering here, so once humans enter, they will be attacked by them. At the same time, the deeper you go, the higher the level of the mysterious beasts will be."
“And this is the center of the entire Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range. Some humans may be active on the edge of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range in order to obtain the Xuandan of the Xuan Beasts, but except for those peerless masters, no one has the courage and ability to reach this area, and those peerless masters who have this ability will not bother to come to such a place.”
“But, there doesn’t seem to be any mysterious beasts around here?” Yun Che frowned. As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly realized: “Could it be because of… the aura of the phoenix?”
"That's right." Feng Baichuan nodded: "To be honest, behind this place is a Phoenix site that we have guarded for generations. It retains the breath left by the Phoenix. Although the breath is weak, it has been there for years. Who in this world can withstand the pressure of the ancient beast? Who dares to get close?"
"I see."
Yun Che nodded slowly, his face slightly moved. There actually is a phoenix site here. Moreover, the phoenix's breath never dissipates. The best explanation is that there is something left by the phoenix in this phoenix site!
Things left behind by ancient mythical beasts!
Just thinking about it like this, Yun Che's blood began to boil... It was conceivable that if the news of the existence of a Phoenix ruins here spread, it would cause a huge sensation.
“If that’s the case, how did those villains who wanted to take away the things you were guarding get in?” Yun Che asked in doubt. An ordinary mercenary group would definitely not be able to fight against a spirit beast, let alone an earth beast. Let alone a hundred people, even if the scale was expanded tenfold, if they encountered an earth beast, they would definitely be annihilated.
If we say that we have not encountered any spiritual or earthly mysterious beasts on our way deeper, that would be impossible considering the density of mysterious beasts in this Mountain Range of Ten Thousand Beasts.
"I don't know." Feng Baichuan shook his head: "I want to know more than anyone how they got here. Perhaps this is our fate."
Could it be that they also used flying beasts that can fly to great heights? Yun Che pondered, but immediately rejected this conjecture. There are many beasts in this mountain range, including a large number of flying beasts. Even if you control ordinary flying beasts, it is impossible to enter. However, beasts such as the Storm Eagle and the Giant Snow Eagle that can reach thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters in the sky can do it, but because of their terrifying flying ability, the number that can be controlled by humans is too small. Even the strongest sect in New Moon City, such as the Xiao Sect Branch, only has one, so how could it be possible for such an ordinary mercenary group to have one.
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